The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-12-06
GREATNESS UF LONDON.
Its Vast Population and How They
Live.

tor Davenport, Ia, Democrat.
How large is Iowa-how many peo-
pie? Oh, eighteen hundred thousand
people, How large is Illinois, her old
er sister state? Say three million and
quarter-,fve millions, say, in both
and hundred and eleven THOUSAND
square miles.
How large is London? The city COW
ers six hundred and ninety square
miles-about twenty Iowa town
ships; and population just about the
same as the two states combined.
That is, huddle all the people in Hi
nois and Iowa into Scott county,
lowa-build Scott county all over
with streets and parks and public
squares-that is to say, when
every inch OF land in Scott
is severed, passed and water
piped, and every rod il laid in
streets and parks and public squares,
and all the people OF the state and
Illinois are gathered there, the size
will foot up something like London.
To be particular-Rome has not so
many Roman Catholics as London;
Dublin has fewer Irishmen than Lon
don, Edinburgh less Scotchmen, and
Jews, why all Judea has not one
tenth as many; and it grows every
day. Every four minutes marks u
birth-even while | spend two hours
in writing this, thirty babes will have
been born and twenty deaths will
have taken place. You think OF it;
the evening paper that records the
births and the deaths OF the precedent
four and twenty hours, must give
three hundred separate items. Verify
Its Joys and sorrows are multitude.
It's streets. 1t is $500 miles Jour.
ney from New York to San Francisco.
You can walk, say twenty miles aday;
hundred days two thousand miles;
well, it would take you a hundred
and seventy-five days at that rate to
make the trip. But London has sew.
en- thousand miles of stTeets-and II
you took them for n morning walk at
n rate of twenty miles u day, you
would have to walk almost year
and more than year by nearly fifty
days If you should lay up Sundays.
And ii you were n thirsty sort OF q
traveller, and couldn't pass n drink
ing shop. don't be alarmed-the seven
thousand miles has five and seventy
miles OF drinking shops-publics they
call them; $50 you need not think oil
thirst.
How do these people iye-as you
do; by eating. They eat a lot. Ican't
go into figures, but you can take your
states and figure up how much they
swallow every day; for in year these
London folks swallow down five
hundred thousand oxen, two million
sheep, two hundred thousand calves,
three hundred thousand swine, eight
million head OF fowls, five hundred
million pounds of fish, five hundred
million oystrs, two hundred million
lobsters-is that enough to figure on?
If not there are some million tons of
canned goods; no end OF fruit and other
stuff, but not to spoil your appetite
talking OF beans and peas, and fifty
million bushels OF wheat, we might as
well forbear.
But how do they wash all this stuff
down, you might feel glad to know.
Look sharp. 1t takes two hundred
million quarts OF beerl A stream OF
beer about the size OF the Wap-
sic would not suffice to quench tho
common thirst. But more than this
they drink ten million quarts of rum,
and fifty million quarts OF wine-the
wine, the rum. the beer-two hundred
and sixty million quarts! Any water2
Some, for sprinkling streets, about a
hundred and fifty millions OF gallons
daily. Taking out the water used for
sprinkling, cooking and fountains,
and the actual drinking supply is des-
perately small. But it's English you
know and there rs no use saying
word.
said that so many thousand mill
ion oxen, sheep and calves were
chewed up between these London
teeth and taken to the London NAV.
Where do they come fromY Great
Britain can't provide them. Why, il
Britons had to live on Irish, Scotch
or British beef, they'd starve to
death within week Britons
get hungry every day-and thirsty.
They can make up beer and rum and
wine enough out OF poor water and
malt and chemists stuffs to quench
the general thirst; but when it comes
to mutton, beef. and pork, they can't
do anything. 1t comes in cargoes
from the states, fresh, canned, and on
the hoot; comes here from Canada,
Australia, and Netherlands across the
way-comes here III quantities, to
feed the teeming millions, who, as said,
must starve, il they looked to home
fields, and herds, and flocks for bread
and meat, and what is true of bread
and meat is true OF garden truck
which comes from Holland. comes